#1385- Are MONEY AFFIRMATIONS Bulls**t !?

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  What's going on squad? Welcome to another episode of the change lives make money podcast for business owners that want to grow and sell on social media. It's your boy Brian Mark and in today's episode, we are going to be discussing this whole idea of money, money, money, money, money, money. We all want to make more money. Who here wants to make more fucking money? Does everybody here want to make more money? I believe that everybody would like to make more money. I believe that is why we get into business is to make more money, but for some reason, no matter how much you try, you always end up hitting a money ceiling. There's this fucking ceiling. There's this, there's something that holds you back. Right? There's a, it's like you're trying to push yourself to the next level. You are trying to make more money. You are trying to grow your

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  business, but no matter how hard you try, you end up at the same level. How many of you listen to this podcast feel that feel like no matter how hard you try, you can't grow your income past a certain level. What is the most amount of money you've ever made in a month? When you think about that, how hard did you have to try in order to make that amount of money? And if this was the, if this was the goal to make more money, then why are we stuck? Why can't we grow to the next level in our money? Why can't we break through to the next level? Why? No matter how hard we try, do we end up at the exact same place? In today's podcast episode, I want to give you the ultimate blueprint to making more money. I'm going to give you the first thing that must happen in

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  order for you to make more money. And I'm going to address the most important question of the day, which is money affirmations. Do money affirmations actually work? Can you actually affirm yourself into making more money? Can you affirm to yourself that you will make more money? And then when you do that, is that a bullshit thing to do? Or does that actually fucking work? Well, before I get into it, I want to tell you guys a story. So we're going to go back to my broke ass days. All right. This is back when I was working at Jameson's Irish pub as a restaurant manager and bartender. And I decided to chase a girl all around the world and we are in a long distance relationship. She broke up with me. I flew to Australia to try to win her back. She didn't want me and she ignored my stuff when I got there. So I ended up getting to Australia and I was faced with a decision. I

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  can either fly back to Canada as a broke loser, or I could fly to Bali and be a broke loser, but be in Bali. So I decided to fly to Bali and be broke loser instead of flying back to Canada. And while I was in Bali, I had no money. I ran out of money when I was there and I had $500 in my bank account and I had three weeks to stay in Bali. So I was forced to learn how to be an entrepreneur. Now, at the time I didn't know, like I tried to become an entrepreneur up to this point and I had it online business and it was very unsuccessful. We're talking about maybe I'd sign a client a month, but now I'm in Bali. I've got three weeks to stay and I need to make at least $5,000 in order to survive. And so I set the intention of running a challenge and I charged $499 for that challenge. And then what I would do is I would, I would sit there and I would, I'd go for a drive

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  on my scooter and I'd say to myself, money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. And I'd be driving around in Bali on my scooter and I'd just be saying, money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. And I would literally go for like hour long drives, just repeating this over and over and over and over myself. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. And frankly, I didn't know if this was going to fucking work. And the reason I didn't know if it was going to work is because I had never successfully made a bunch of money online. I had unsuccessfully started my business. I had unsuccessfully, you know, launched this fucking part-time online coaching business, but I was also working at

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  Jameson's as an Irish pub and a bartender. So I wasn't a successful entrepreneur. I was a broke entrepreneur that just ended up in Bali with $0. So I was driving around in my fucking Balinese scooter that cost me $5 a day to rent. And I'd say to myself, money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Money comes to me frequently, easily and effortlessly. Long story short, on that three week long trip, I ended up making $5,000, which was more than enough to pay for the entire trip. Because when you're in Bali, like if you're frugal, like I was when I was broke as fuck, like I could literally live on 25 bucks a day. So $5,000 was more than enough for me to be able to survive for the next three weeks. And when I came back to Canada, I walked up to my nine to five job. I walked in and I said, I quit and I'll never work for you again. Never hire me, even if I beg for my job back, because I wanted to

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  burn my fucking bridge and I wanted to basically incinerate the opportunity of coming back. So that is when I found out that money affirmations absolutely do fucking work. Now, before I get into that, and before I double down on this, I want to talk to you guys about the concept of a fucking thermostat. Okay. And I want to talk to you guys about why, I want you to think about the most amount of money you've ever made in a month. And if you're listening to this live, I want you to tell me what that is right now. What's the most amount of money that you've ever made in a month? And if you're listening to this on the podcast, AKA on all platforms, which by the way, we are doing a thousand dollar giveaway every single month to my listeners. All you gotta do is screenshot this podcast episode, share it to your Instagram stories, tag me at the real Brian Mark, you're entered to win a thousand dollars, giving away a thousand dollars every month, by

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  the way. Long story short. So if you think about the most amount of money you've ever made in a month, I want you to think about that number for a second. All right. Grab that number and understand that the reason that that is the most amount of money that you've ever made in a month is because that is what your temperature is set at. And to illustrate this point, I want to paint a picture of how thermostats actually work. If I walk into my house right now and my thermostat is set at 21 degrees, it doesn't matter if it's fucking plus 40 outside or minus 20 outside, no matter the elements, because my temperature in my house is set at 21 degrees, whatever the furnace works, it's going to adjust and make sure that when I walk into my house, my temperature is 21

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  degrees, which means that it doesn't matter if it's fucking wildly hot outside, or it's extremely cold, the temperature in my house will remain at 21 degrees, because that's what my house is set at. Now I want to fucking, I want you guys to understand something. All right. Your mind and your money does the exact same thing, which means you will not make more money than your mind is set at in terms of your money temperature. That's the most amount of money that you've ever made in a month is because that's what you set your temperature at. And you might not have done this consciously. This might not, like, nobody ever says to themselves, well, I only want to make $25,000 a month. I only want to make $97,000 a month. I only want to make 200K. Nobody ever says

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  that to themselves. We just get our temperature set at that level because of our conditioning from our past. Now, you can't outwork temperature. Here's what I mean by that. I can't like come into my fucking house and wave a fan in my fucking face, or wave a fan in the air, or walk around with a fan and try to change the temperature of the house. That doesn't fucking work. I can't open the door and hope that the outside elements and use a fan with the door, hope that the outside elements changes the temperature of my house. The furnace, the heating system in my house is too strong. Just like you cannot outwork the temperature that you set for your money. The reason that you're making the amount of money that you're making is because that's what your temperature is set at.

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  Now I'm going to flip this on its head for a second. I want you guys, I'm going to talk about the other perspective. Okay. Do you remember when you first started your business? How like even making a thousand dollars online is would be was like a crazy thing? Does everybody remember that? Where you first started your business and you made a thousand dollars and you're like, oh my God, like that's insane. Like I can't believe I made a thousand dollars. Can we all remember that moment? If you're listening to live, like let me know. If you're listening to the podcast, you're remembering that moment. It was like a thousand dollars online. You were like, what the fuck just happened? Your first thousand dollars in business? You're like, holy shit, you know? This is crazy. You know what I'm talking about? That concept was insane for us back then, right? Like that was just like, what the fuck? I can't even believe this is my reality. Now I want you to think about this for a second. Okay. Because right now you're making the amount of money that you're making. Let's say it's $25,000 a month. Let's say it's $50,000 a month. Let's say it's

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  a hundred thousand dollars a month. Let's say it's fucking $10,000 a month. Whatever amount of money that you're making right now. I want you to think about that number. Okay. Let's just say you're making $25,000 a month. And then for whatever reason, the next month, your business was like in the middle of the month, your business was on pace to do like five or $6,000. What happens inside of you? Like when you're used to making 25 to 30,000 dollars a month, and your business is on pace to do like, you know, 10 or $11,000, which is like 40 or 50% below what you're used to? What happens internally? I want you guys to think about that feeling for a second. We're like, you are, you're supposed to be making 20 to 30K. That's what you're used to. But then all of a sudden, your business is like 70% behind pace. What happens internally? I want you guys to write that down.

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  Like, just let me know. What happens? For me, here's an example. I'm used to making 1.5 million dollars a month. When my business is on pace to finish like under a million a month, I literally have like a fucking full on panic attack. And I figure out whatever the fuck I need to do to get my business to the level that I know it should be at. And exactly you, you turn on the motherfucking jets because you're like, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, this isn't fucking, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This isn't how I, this isn't how I operate. This isn't what the fuck my business is supposed to be doing. And then for some reason, there's just this like fucking gigantic spark of motivation. And you just do whatever the fuck you need to do to get yourself back to the temperature that you know that you should be at. Do you guys understand the concept that I'm talking about?

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  So temperature works both ways. It works the positive way and it also works the negative way. Right? It also works the negative way. As in, if you're not on pace to finish on where your temperature is set at, whatever the fuck your temperature is set at, whether it's 25,000, 100,000, 500,000, million dollars a month. If you're not on pace, it like all of a sudden jets just go bam, and you turn the temperature up to get yourself back to where you should be. Your brain does the same thing for both ways. Your brain does the same thing for the negative temperature and your brain does the same thing for the positive temperature, which means When you start doing better than your brain is expecting you to do, you will subconsciously sabotage yourself to get yourself back to the level that you are the most comfortable at. You will allow yourself to believe stories that are not true,

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  so that you can stay at the temperature that you are accustomed to. This is why most people that win the lottery, it's like 80 to 90% of people that win the lottery, end up broke within two years. Cause they got the thing, they got the money, but they didn't get the temperature. Their temperature set to fucking brokey. And so even though financially, they got the outcome, they didn't change the temperature. And unless you change the temperature, you cannot change the fucking outcome. And no amount of hard work will allow you to outwork the temperature. Now here's where I believe to be true. Okay. Here's what I believe to be true. Most people do one or the other. Okay. I'm not a one or the other person. I'm a both person. Here's what I mean by this. Most people are like, fuck affirmations, dog.

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  I don't do affirmations. I'm a top G, right? I'm a top G. I just work my ass off. Hard work over everything, dedication, commitment. I know a lot of people that just decide that they're gonna grind every single day, but never work on the mentality, never work on their mindset, never work on their fucking, their belief system, you know, AKA what are you tuned in, tapped in, turned on to? You know, those people are like, I don't need a fucking mentor. I don't need to surround myself with people that are harder working. I'm self-made. I made my shit. I'm just gonna work myself until I get successful, you know? That's like this fucking dork over here, right? We'll call him the grinder. And then there's also the people on the other side that are like these manifestation fucking hippies that are just sitting in their rooms that are like, oh my God, like, I'm a millionaire. I'm just gonna be a millionaire.

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  And I, I don't believe in working hard and I believe that like you should never work until you burn out. And I believe that like, if you just feel your way into success, that you just have to like align yourself with the universe and then manifestation, and then you're gonna be fucking good. Okay? That's not how it fucking works. The answer isn't one or the other. It's both. So yes, affirmations sure as fuck do work, but they have to be paired with an insane amount of hard work. Now here is, here's how you actually believe the affirmations that you're saying to yourself. Okay. The grinder, exactly. The fucking, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Here's how you can make your money affirmations work for you. Okay? And this is the exact strategy that I used with money affirmations to take myself from $5,000 a month to $10,000 a month to $20,000 a month,

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  to $30,000 a month, to $50,000 a month, to $100,000 a month, to $1 million a month. And now I'm going to two fucking million a month. Okay? Here's the exact process. I say with affirmations, affirm something that is outside of reach, but within reason. Here's what I mean by this. Affirm something that is outside of reach, but within reason. Here's what this looks like. Let's say that you have a goal. All right, right now, what's the most amount of money you've ever made a month? Let's write it down or just keep it in mind. Most amount of money you've ever made a month. So just write it down or follow along. Most amount of money you've ever made a month. Outside of reach, but within reason says this. I'm going to set a goal of achieving a record-breaking month that is 20% higher than the most amount of money that I've ever made in a month. Outside of reach, but within reason.

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  Because if you start, if you're like starting at like a thousand dollars a month, and you're like, I'm gonna be a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire. Your brain's not gonna believe that. Your brain's gonna know that you're full of shit. And so like, yeah, you can set that as like a long-term vision that you want to be a millionaire. But that's not the affirmation that you want to start telling yourself every single day. Cause if you tell yourself that every single day, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, I'm a millionaire, millionaire, and you don't actually fucking believe it. It's like you're just lying to yourself consistently and you're gonna know. However, if you can set an affirmation for yourself that is outside of reach, but within reason, you will start to believe that. And when you start to believe that, you'll be willing to do the work that is required in order to get there. Does that make sense? And so when I'm setting goals and money affirmations,

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  I'm setting them to be a little bit outside of reach, but within reason, so that my brain actually believes it to be true. And so if you're listening to this right now, and the most amount of money that you've ever made is $14,000 in a month, then for you, I would want you to set the goal and say, okay, September 2026, I make $20,000. I make $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I make $20,000 this month. I make $20,000 this month. I love making $20,000 this month. That's your affirmation. And then whenever you're fucking by yourself, driving in your car, listening to music, you're telling yourself, I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. And you just say it to yourself over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. It's the first thing you say when you wake up. It's the last thing you say when you go to bed.

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  And you just say it to yourself consistently throughout the day. Whenever you catch yourself by yourself, I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. I made $20,000 this month. Here's the thing. Does that sound crazy? Cause it is. It is fucking crazy. You know what else is crazy? When I was a drug addict, sleeping on my grandma's trailer park, recovering from my addiction, writing down in a fucking Microsoft Word document that one day I was gonna be a millionaire. That was also crazy. But guess what? You do what everybody else does. You get what everybody else gets. And here's the thing, all right? This is, I'm gonna leave you with this. Okay. So regardless of whether or not you decide that you're gonna do money affirmations, which by the way, fucking highly recommend doing so. I'm gonna let you guys know this, all right? Whether or not you want to admit it, you are already doing money affirmations. You are already doing them. I don't have enough money. Can't sign clients this week.

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  You know, not making as much as I want to make. You know, my business isn't growing as fast as I want it to. My content isn't bringing me in clients. That's all money affirmations. You're just affirming the opposite. You're affirming all the things that you don't want. So every time you speak words out of your mouth that are not positive about your business or your money, that is a money affirmation. You're already doing them. You're just not conscious of it. And so for me, if I know that regardless of whether or not I want to participate in the game, I'm playing the game. AKA, everything that I say about my business ends up manifesting in my reality. And by the way, our words are just representations of the thoughts that we think. And so any words that you speak are just simply representations of the thoughts that you were thinking.

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  And so anything that you're saying is what you're thinking about your business. You're already doing your affirmations. If I know that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to make the decision that I'm going to affirm that I'm making more money. I make more money. That's it. I make more money. Period. I'm gonna leave you with some final thoughts, all right? Regarding money affirmations. Cause yes, they sure as fuck do work. Okay? They do work. Now I'm gonna give you some things that are, that are going to also help you make more money. Thing number one, okay? Exposure therapy. Write that down. Exposure therapy. Here's what exposure therapy means. When you see other people making more money and you realize that they're the same as you, AKA they bleed the same blood, they look the same, they, they talk similar,

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  they fucking have fears, they don't have more followers than you, and they're making more money. When you see that, you can't unsee it. And so you gotta get around people that are making more money. It's called osmosis. And ideally, you do it in person. Like if you can go to any in-person events or any in-person gatherings where there's people that are making more money than you, you should fucking go. However, the second best is virtually. And exposure therapy ideally happens in person, but exposure therapy can also happen online. Consuming somebody's content, getting into fucking community. You know, getting into somebody's community where there's people that are making more money. But you can't just be in the community. You gotta be on the fucking calls. You gotta talk to people that are making more money. You know, you gotta hear their perspective on your situation. You gotta hear how they communicate with other people.

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  That's extremely important. Exposure therapy. That's number one. Number two, you can affirm out your fucking ass, but unless you're willing to do the work, AKA you like make the decision that you're gonna like, this is the amount of money that I want to make. And then you're prepared, listen, okay? This is what you need to be prepared to do. All right, I want you to listen, listen close. Okay, listen to me, all right? Bring your ears a little bit closer. Cause I need to fucking, this is what you need to do. This is it. Okay? I'm gonna fucking whisper. You need to be prepared to do whatever the fuck it takes to achieve that goal. If you are prepared to do whatever the fuck it takes to achieve that goal, and you affirm that goal as if it is already done, God and the universe is going to be on your side.

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  Because the universe and God respond to a man or woman that is 100% convicted on that thing that they want to achieve. When you have a purpose and you are doing it for the greater good of everybody involved, and you are 100% committed to achieving this outcome, and you are prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, you become an unstoppable force of nature. I got chills talking about this shit. And I can speak that from experience because I am a walking embodiment of what that looks like. My life has radically transformed on the back end of me making the decision that I was going to be a millionaire, making the decision that I was going to be wealthy, making the decision that I was going to grow on social media, making the decision that I was going to be a leader of men. And you can make that decision too. So yes, money affirmations work.

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